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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.

Each entry provides a link to the image of the front of the cover. There is also the option to have a link to the image of the back of the cover if there is anything of significance there. Finally, there is the primary date for the cover and the classification types for all postmarks based on the Locy System.

Thumbnail Link To Cachet Close-Up Image	Thumbnail Link To Full Cover Front Image	Thumbnail Link To Postmark or Back Image	Primary Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

			1924-11-16 Locy Type 3 (AC) "GUANTANAMO / BAY CUBA"
			Category

Postcard use
"Calle Pedro A. Perez, Guantanamo, Cuba / P.A. Perez Street."

No Image			1926-11-10 Locy Type 9 (C) 1926-11-12 USPO Jack & Key West marking 1926-11-15 USPO (illegible)
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1927-03-17 Locy Type 3r "GONAIVES / HAITI"
			Sailors mail

Courtesy of the Richard Jones collection.

No Image			1927-06-25 Locy Type 3r "HASTINGS / ENGLAND"
			Category

Postcard use

No Image			1927-10-15 Locy Type 3r "GIBARALTER / SPAIN"
			Category

Front pencil notation "Gibraltar isn't spelled with an "E" and isn't in Spain, and it hasn't two "As"
Back black pen return to ship at N.Y....Pencil notations "24"..."DETROIT / 38a"

 

			1928-11-01 Locy Type 3s "NAVY YARD / BOSTON" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20
			Category

Notes:

No Image			1928-11-23 Locy Type 3s "NAVY YARD / BOSTON" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20
			Category

Back black pen return address to ship...Pencil notation "DETROIT 68"

			1930-05-19 Locy Type 3s "NEW YORK / N. Y." USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20a USPO Slogan New York NY, STA J-1 "ADRESS YOUR MAIL / TO / STREET AND NUMBER"
			Official Business

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No Image			1933-09-14 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20a
			Category

Front typed notation "CL-8"

			1934-02-22 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20a
			Washington's Birthday

USCS Chapter 2 Cachet

 

			1934-06-04 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20a
			Port Visit - Hoboken

Cachet Makers: Hoboken Businessman's Association and HUX.
Unable to make out the name of the cachet director on the back of the cover.

 

No Image			1934-06-04 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20a
			Category

Note:

No Image			1934-06-15 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20a
			Category

Hand painted cachet

			1934-09-26 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20a
			Category

Onzay Cachet by Emil Thurman and George Canaday
Back violet rubberstamp Emil Thurman / Aiglon Society return

			1934-09-26 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20a
			Category

Onzay Cachet by Emil Thurman and George Canaday
Back violet rubberstamp Emil Thurman / Aiglon Society return

No Image			1934-10-27 Unlisted Type 5hksy "U S S DETROIT / FLAGSHIP"
			Navy Day 1934

Destroyers Battle Force

 

			1935-05-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "HONOLULU / T. H."
			Category

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers and Nippu Jiji Company

 

No Image			1935-05-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "HONOLULU / T. H."
			Category

Note:

 

			1935-07-07 Locy Type P [3 (C-BBT)] (Destroyers Battle Force) "USS DETROIT / FLAGSHIP"
			Category

Note:

			1935-10-28 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAVY DAY / "
			Navy Day 1935

Unknown Cachet

 

			1936-08-06 Locy Type 6erp
			Port Visit - Portland OR

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 22 Battleship Oregon and Louis R Diesing

 

N/A		N/A	1936-12-14 Locy Type 6erp
			Sailors mail

From the Tom Kean collection.

 

No Image			1937-01-23 Locy Type 3 DESTROYERS BATTLE FORCE "USS DETROIT / FLAGSHIP"
			Category

Note:

 

			1937-04-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T H"
			Category

Cachet Makers: Walter G Crosby and J Enos.
Cachet is thermographed.

			1937-07-31 Locy Type 3b (BC-BXT) "MARE ISLAND / CALIFORNIA"
			Ship Birthday

Frederick Horton Cachet
Back VALLEJO CALIF / MARE ISLAND STATION machine cancel 1937-07-31...Purple rubberstamp Frederick Horton / Aiglon Society return

 

			1937-07-31 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "MARE ISLAND / CALIFORNIA"
			Ship Birthday

Cachet Maker: Ted Harrington

 

N/A		N/A	1939-06-30 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T H" (Period Not Showing)
			Completes Overhaul

Cachet by Jimmie Allen. Cachet sponsored by the John Rodgers Chapter No. 26, USCS. From the Tom Kean collection.

No Image			1939-08-28 Locy Type 9efw
			Category

Postcard use

			1939-12-24 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CAL"
			Official Business

Note:

			1940-05-01 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T. H." Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20c Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9x
			Category

Addressed to USS HONOLULU
Back pencil notations "CL8 1922"...(Cancel Types)

 

			1941-02-20 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Cachet Makers: J Robert Bund and Robert Stoner

 

			1941-03-09 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T H"
			Category

Note:

No Image			1941-08-07 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
			Category

Business reply
Back typed return

No Image			1941-09-19 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Business reply

No Image			1941-09-20 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Note:

No Image			1941-11-10 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Note:

No Image			1941-11-12 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Note:

			1941-11-26 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Crosby Cachet

 

No Image			1942-01-31 Locy Type 3z (A-BBT)
			Category

Note: Official Mail, Commander Destroyers, Battle Force, USS Detroit, Flagship

			1943-03-28 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1943-19-11 Locy Type 2z
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1944-11-19 Locy Type 2z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Postcard use "Christmas and New Years Greetings / 1944 USS Detroit"

			1945-09-02 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. D-20f
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

N/A		N/A	1945-11-14 Locy Type 6erp
			Collectors request

Cachet by George V. Sadworth. From the Tom Kean collection.

		No Image	1945-12-14 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Unknown Cachet

No Image			1946-01-10 Locy Type LDPS 6erp
			Last Day Postal Service

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